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Torchlight Infinite SS10 Bing 2 Thunderbolt Overload Build | Best Traits, Skills, And Gear For T8 Farming

Posted: Oct 30, 2025 Views: 26

As long as you're still playing Torchlight Infinite, developing more usable builds is a never-ending task! Especially with the introduction of Hero Traits in the current season, as this means more new skills and the resulting more combination possibilities.

Based on this, the core of the most popular builds crafting in Season 10 is the newly introduced Creative Genius. It's the second Hero Trait for the hero Einherjar Bing and is therefore traditionally known as Bing 2.

Another Bing 2 build we previously introduced was a burst damage build centered on Necklace of Firebird. This time, we'll be introducing Thunderbolt Overload Build, which is more comprehensive and allows for better farming in T8.

Torchlight Infinite SS10 Bing 2 Thunderbolt Overload Build | Best Traits, Skills, And Gear For T8 Farming

Which Traits Should You Pair It With?

Creative Genius has 14 usable traits, including itself, but not all of them are suitable for Thunderbolt Overload Build - the most important thing is to improve your energy regeneration and movement speed. Therefore, the following traits are essential:

  • Super Sonic Protocol - Requires lv 45: Provides a speed bonus when casting Ingenuity Overload.
  • Mind Domain - Requires lv 60: Creates an energy field during Whimsy Explosion, stacking five Whimsy charges for every second you remain within it.
  • Ingenious Chaos Principle - Requires lv 60: Restores Ingenuity Essence with each maximum Max Spell Burst.

All these traits will significantly reduce the overall cooldown of build running, especially the cooldown of explosion abilities, as there is a 25% chance to trigger Whimsy Explosion when casting your main abilities afterward.

Optimal Skill Choices

Firstly, you gain +1 to maximum spell burst for every two enhanced defensive abilities you equip. For Thunderbolt Overload build, choosing Ice Bond and Secret Origin Unleash will give you a total of 8 spell burst bonuses.

Other skills to be added and their corresponding effects are as follows:

  • Ingenuity Overload: Instantly triggers the main skill once, increasing maximum spell burst by 200% and immediately charging to maximum. Requires 100 Ingenuity Essence.
  • Whimsy Explosion: Fires a projectile that explodes upon impact, consuming 100 Whimsy Essence while restoring 25 Ingenuity Essence.
  • Thunderbolt Overload: Allows you to throw and jump twice with Thunderbolts. Upon hitting an enemy, it deals 124-207 spell/physical damage via explosion, and all physical damage dealt is converted into lightning damage.
  • Frigid Transmission: Teleports you to a target location, dealing 693-1040 spell/cold damage within a certain radius between the starting and ending points.
  • Timid: Curses enemies in the target area, causing cursed enemies to take an additional 20% hit damage.
  • Secret Origin Unleash: This skill grants you Euphoria, which increases spell damage by 5.5% and casting speed by 3% for each stack of Focus Blessing you gain over 6 seconds.

As you can see, most skills focus on providing damage and various speed boosts. While the core crafting of Bing 2 builds is usually Chain Lightning, Thunderbolt Overload Build's advantage lies in delivering decent damage output without requiring high-quality gear.

Gear Pairing Options

Although this build doesn't have strict requirements regarding gear rarity, you should still choose the best possible gear within a limited budget. Below is our recommended gear list.

Blind Vision:

  • +1920 gear Evasion
  • + (187-242) Max Life
  • Immune to Blinding
  • Works even better with Wind Projectiles

False God's Skin:

  • +8 Strength
  • + (6-10)% all stats
  • Can add 4 stat buff affixes

Dawn Break:

  • +35 Max Life
  • + (500-1000) Armor and Evasion
  • Can add 1 stat buff affix
  • Have Fervor
  • Has 60-70 points of fixed Fervor Rating
  • For every 2-3 levels of Fervor Rating, the extra damage dealt increases by 1%

Frozen Ripples:

  • +146 gear Energy Shield
  • +5% Movement Speed
  • + (20-25)% Cold Resistance
  • For every stack of Max Spell Burst, movement speed increases by 4-5%
  • When Max Spell Burst is at 200% of base movement speed, burst damage +1

These gears can be obtained for less than 100 Torchlight Infinite Flame Elementium respectively, making them ideal for early-game budgets. And if you want to continue using this build after reaching endgame, you can easily replace them with better gear.

When stacking affixes for this build's gear, focus on adding affixes that increase damage output and resistances, ideally providing fixed lightning damage, as lightning skills themselves offer various bonuses including spell damage, casting speed, and spell burst.

How To Choose Divinity Slates?

Divinity Slates unlock more talent nodes, giving your build additional ability boosts. For Thunderbolt Overload Build, prioritize maximizing Focus Blessing stacks.

Each Focus Blessing stack grants a 3% spell damage increase, and further increases will unlock nodes that directly provide +1 to maximum spell burst.

Afterward, focus on Agility Blessing, as they provide movement speed or critical strike bonuses. The +1 punch skill with decent stats is also important, granting increased spell burst recharge speed and parabolic cleave count.

What Should You Focus On Improving In Hero Memories?

Hero Memories are essentially collectibles that provide stat boosts and powerful affixes. Engraving them on relics enhances the power of the hero you're playing.

When crafting this build, you can focus Hero Memories on increasing critical strike rating and damage. However, Hero Memories are only obtainable at endgame, so this part can be left for later in the season.

Overall, this is an easy-to-craft build with relatively low gear requirements, and importantly, it performs well in actual gameplay. So if you're currently playing Bing 2, give this build a try!

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